St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-13

mlllar, was ODtalnaDle. AT PlattSmOutn,
Hamburg and other places the
people were out in force, and though
the train did not stop, displayed their
less crossing, where stop was required
by law, two or three hundred were
gathered; some of whom in a sudden
impulse to get nearer, tangled them
selves in barb wire fence, from which
they were freed by their companions.
In the outskirts of st. Joseph,
Congressman Burns and Mr.. Hartwick,
president of the board of trade, boarded
the train and besOught the president to
make longer stay than the allotted
half hour. This he refused with some
Cearnestness to do. He spoke of
THE DELAY AT OMAHA
which he said had almost determined
him to give up the stop at st. Joseph.
Therefore, the gentlemen promised that
the train should leave on schedule time.
The train reached st. Joseph half
hour ahead of its time. Artillery,
church bells and steam whistles
heralded the arrival at st. Joseph.
The town had been filling up
during the preceding twenty-four hours,
some 25,000 strangers having been
brought in by rail, and these, with the
10000 natives, were all on hand. Mayor
Ivy ~ anu lCCCpUlOH VI LOU
ladies and gentlemen received the presi-
dent and, with the aid of the police,
maintained good order while the visitors
were taken in carriages. A line OF
vehicles more than quarter of a mile
i'll length carried the presidential escort.
The uniformed secret orders of the
town, the county Democratic committee
and some other organizations were on
hand with brass bands of various de-
grees of excellence. "Hail to the Chief''
melted into the 'Boulanger March,"
which in turn gave place to
''Hail Columbia" and this succumbed
again to Hail to the Chief"
A stop was made for a moment when
the head of the procession reached the
central square of the town, where the
pupils OF the Convent of the Sacred
Heart handed the president beautiful
floral flag whose materials were violetS,
carnations and tube roses, while those
of the public schools gave Mrs. Cieve-
land costly silver basket filled with
roses. The streets were handsomely
decorated with bunting, and the throngs
for the most part were orderly, but at
the station there remained a crowd of
curious people who beSieged the special
train, and it took the best efforts of the
train attendants to protect it from in
jury. When the party returned to the
train and attempted to board it there
occurred another of those crushes
which have become somewhat familiar
but which are none the less terrible.
This was caused by the frantic attempt
of 10000 persons, moved by one i'm
pulse, to get into close quarters with the
president. 1t was work of pain and
even of danger for his fellow excursion
lists to make their way to the train, a
work in which thn ittnQ onH
lice rendered but little assistance.
Among the souvenirs of the visit to st.
Joseph brought away by Mrs. Cleveland
was one found in her car after the train
had left the station for Kansas City. Its
development was
AN ELEGANT BOX
of white satin, delicately trimmed and
artisticallY decorated, bearing on its
cover the letters ''F. F. c." Within
was large corn colored sachet of the
finest satin upon which was a printed
Cleveland. st. Elizabeth society greets
you with salutation and benedic-
ton on this, Oct. IL, 1887"
Following this was legend stating
that the donors deemed it not inapprO-
pirate on this occasion to point to the
paralleliSm of the circumstances of
Mrs. Cleveland's present state with
that OF the sOclety'S patron, Elizabeth,
queen of Hungary, which made that
queen the prototype of the society.
Called in the first flower of her youth
and beauty to preside over a nation,
she was distinguished even beyond
nightly and charity. 1t closed with the
expression of hope that Mrs. Cleve-
lands life, like that of Queen Elizabeth,
might be a halo of virtue and holiness,
and that the bright example might live
forever.
The train. arrived at Kansas City on
time at S:15. A delegation consisting of
ten gentlemen composing the commit
tee of arrangements, headed by E. ii.
Allen, proceeded to Waldron, fifteen
miles north of here, and Joined the
party. At the depot, and for blocks
around, an immense crowd had gath
up as the train slowly puffed in
on the siding nearest the street.
The military and Democratic clubs of
this city and from neighboring towns,
served as escort to the procession to the
hotel, and succeeded in keeping the
crowd which marched along on either
side of the carriages, in check. Shortly
after the arrival of the party at the
hotel, the president and Mrs. Cleve-
land appeared in the parlors
OF @ the Coles House, and the
ceiving the members of the reception
committee and their friends. After the
president and his wife had retired to
the rooms, the cheers of the crowd in
the street below caused them to appear
at the balcony. They bowed in recog-
milton of the salute and at half past 10
withdrew for the night. What might
have been serious accident occurred
just before the party reached the hotel,
by the breaking of cable on grip car.
Several persons were injured, but none
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